What is the most distributed magazine in the world?

it is the most circulated but not the most read, most are tossed

There is no truth in any religion. Just because people exercise their blind faith in it does not make it true. And that goes for the book of any religion too. The bible is full of hate. It calls for the killing of gays.

Ben Totuous Organized religion of any sort is brainwashing of the highest order. To accept something on blind faith requires you to throw away all reason and question nothing. It means not using the good sense supposedly given you by your deity. If he exists, he's shaking his head and laughing.

Yes, and they do it in the name of religion, and they are as far as they can get from the truth of the Bible!!! FALSE RELIGION IS THE NAME OF THEIR GAME.

David Daniels I am glad for you that religion works for you in your life. It is not with an arrogance that I reject blind faith. It is with reason. It is funny to me that when someone rejects religion and blind faith, they are called arrogant. It's just a nice way to go on the offensive, but has no merit. You don't like my opinion, so you accuse me of arrogance. When you accept your religion, you also accept the fairy tales that go along with it. Things written long ago, claiming to be "the word of God", that are simply the word of men. As you said, these are words, some good, others not so good. They are a way of reinforcing the laws of a patriarchal society and maintaining control. Granted, some contribute to a lawful and orderly society, but we can have that without believing in a deity. The fact that some of "God's words" can be bad is problematic to me. You yourself point out the wars that have been fought in the name of "God" and religion. As to "he, she, or it", why quibble? I selected a pronoun for lack of a better word. Take your pick. It matters little to me what word you use for some imaginary figure. As to my tautology, I have used it often when debating this issue and it pleases me that you recognize the intentional, tongue-in-cheek humor and I expect you to accept it with the same thinking that allows you to accept your faith. As to proving or disproving "God's" existence, I say, since you chose to believe, you must prove it. It is not up to me to disprove it. I don't believe at all! You are the one who accepts "God's" existence; tell me why. Asking me to disprove your belief is called an argument from ignorance, from the Latin: argumentum ad ignorantiam, also known as appeal to ignorance, in which ignorance represents "a lack of contrary evidence". It is a fallacy in informal logic. It asserts that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven false or vice versa. This represents a type of false dichotomy in that it excludes a third option, which is that: there may have been an insufficient investigation, and therefore there is insufficient information to prove the proposition be either true or false. Nor does it allow the admission that the choices may in fact not be two, true or false, but may be as many as four: true, false, unknown between true or false, or being unknowable, among the first three. In debates, appeals to ignorance are sometimes used in an attempt to shift the burden of proof. It won't work here.

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Darla Collins I don't misunderstand anything in the Bible. In fact, the more I read of it, the more certain I am in my stance. The Bible is the word of men who claimed it was God's word in order to maintain control of a patriarchal society aND retain powe overy superstitious people. Why do you suppose women are inferior to men in the Bible? Do you believe everything in that book? If you do then you must stone adulterers, you must not mix your fabrics, and you must believe men lived 8 and 9 centuries long. If you believe in the Bible, you must accept it all or not at all. It is acceptable to own slaves in the Bible. Is that OK with you? If not, why not? Isn't it the "word of God"?

Had a copy in my hands when I saw the question. Changed my life.

Nigel Usher You are preaching to the choir, so to speak. I have never called people of faith, "buffoons and idiots". Please do not put words in my mouth, then expect me to defend them.

Larry W. Jones I tolerate and accept considerably more than you give me credit for. Generally, my comments are meant to be corrective, humorous, and informative. I do not engage in personal attacks, use vulgarity, or make statements without first checking my information. I do not tolerate vulgarity, prejudice, or the perpetuation of misinformation. I respect that you allow me my opinions concerning faith. I feel the same about those of faith, as long as they do not use said faith to impinge on my own freedoms. All too often, faith is used to justify political stances and that I will fight, whenever it occurs. Fairness, equality, and generosity of spirit are my driving forces. It is rare I run into those who oppose me on those matters.

You religious fanatics will believe anything. It is a waste of time arguing with you.

Interesting Laughlin v Daniels mini-debate. It should come as no surprise that I am in the Laughlin camp even though I recognize and appreciate the articulate intelligence of Daniels...except for the assertion of arrogance. As an attorney, Daniels knows full well that the burden of proof in any case lies with the person or entity making the positive assertion. The government in every criminal case has the burden of proof 100%. The defendant has none. The government is making the positive assertion (“You killed this man”). The defendant says “Prove it beyond a reasonable doubt”. The defendant has NO burden of proof whatsoever. The believer asserts that there is a god. The non-believer says “Prove it”. The atheist does not make a positive assertion. Atheist simply means “without belief”. He does not assert that there is no god because that is considered unknowable, at least until the believer is able to meet his or her burden of proof. For those believers who respond that I can’t prove that there is no god. It should be clear by now that I don’t have to for two reasons: first, I don’t make that claim and second, it is not possible to prove a negative and no one ever assumes any burden of proof for doing so. It is my assumption that both Laughlin and Daniels are fully aware of everything I have just written but I also believe that many if not most of our membership do not fully understand how burden of proof actually works. This is my humble attempt to add to your collective fund of knowledge and dispell lingering misconceptions.

Actually it Awake but they are both distributed by Jahovah's Witness. So it's like splitting hairs.

Oh my goodness. Each to his own. As long as they’re not hurting anyone else.

You people crack me up!

williamrlaughlin, and yet you believe in anthropogenic climate change.

Irony alert! Hate filled comments about religion. Hate all around. Then, of course, separate from religion there is the factual reality of the Risen Jesus. Now that’s good news!

I agree with JD......

I circulate mine straight to the trashcan.

Loucile W. Hall, when they are dead? It says so much about you, that ypu believe in such a stupid story.

Fayyaz Muddassir Mubeen, circulated, not distributed.

John Pipik, no not everyone does it.

dfmayfield, it is still written by men.

Rhonda Durham, say that to the evangelists that love anti-christ. The ones loving guns and look down on any one that isn't believing in what they do. They who hate black, latinos, muslims, gays, transpeople. They who hate aborts but don't give a damn about the poor children that they say must be born. They who say that you go to hell if you don't like Trump. And where do you think they have got it from? They truely believes that being christian is that way!

Caroline Cheavin Milam, do you really believe what you write. The Bible writers wasn't more honest than the ones trying to get people say Amen on Facebook. They got paid to spread lies.